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The Jax is at 101 West Short Street, at North Limestone, in the space briefly occupied by Rosetta and before that Mia's and Anna Belle's. Hours are 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday. Call (859) 721-2339.

OPENINGS AND CHANGES

■ Graeter's Ice Cream opened its second Lexington location — at 1925 Justice Drive in Hamburg, beside Malone's restaurant — this week. The store, which serves the Cincinnati company's famous French pot ice cream, sorbet and more, is operated by franchisees Jim and Jay Tedesco. They manage several Graeter's stores in Louisville and southern Indiana, and relaunched Graeter's in Lexington last year with a store at 836 Euclid Avenue. The chain had been absent from the city since 2010, when eight stores in Central and Northern Kentucky closed because of problems with the previous franchisee.

■ Gold Star Chili, 350 Foreman Avenue, off South Broadway, has reopened and offers an expanded menu that includes gourmet burgers and chicken sandwiches. The store will celebrate its reopening with Customer Appreciation Day on June 5, offering Gold Star Chili's signature three-way chili for $3. Call (859) 317-9240. Go to Goldstarchili.com.

■ Construction workers are at Parkette Drive-In, but they're not there for the Poor Boys. The crew is building a cover for the back patio and installing six garage doors around it. "The décor is going to be a retro '50s garage," co- owner Randy Kaplan said. "With the addition, we'll add more than 90 seats." The remodeling is expected to be complete by the end of June. Parkette is at 1230 East New Circle Road. Call (859) 254-8723 or go to Theparkette.com.

SPECIALS

■ Fresh asparagus from Greenwood Farm in Versailles is on the menu at Ramsey's Diners. Locations are 496 East High Street, 4053 Tates Creek Centre, 3090 Helmsdale Drive and 4391 Harrodsburg Road. Go to Ramseysdiners.com.

EVENTS

■ It's not too late to pick up tickets for the Taste of the Bluegrass, 7 p.m. Friday at Keeneland's Keene Barn and Entertainment Center, 4201 Versailles Road. Tickets, $75, are available at Kroger and Central Bank locations. Local restaurants and beverage distributors show off their best dishes and drinks at the annual event, which benefits God's Pantry Food Bank and the Bluegrass Chapter of the Kentucky Restaurant Association. Go to Godspantryfoodbank.org.

■ The seventh annual Kentucky Ale Brew-Offwill be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Alltech's Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co., 401 Cross Street. Home brewers will be brewing on site as part of Lexington Craft Beer Week. The winning beer will be scaled up to a single, commercial-size batch by Alltech and sold on tap locally. The winner also will have his or her batch entered into the 2013 Pro-Am Competition at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver in October.

■ Staxx BBQ, 11 Carson Place, Frankfort, is celebrating its second anniversary Friday. Guests may buy any sandwich combo and receive a sandwich combo free from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; buy a pound of pork and receive a pound of pork free from 2 to 5 p.m.; and buy two racks of ribs and receive a rack of ribs free from 5 to 9 p.m. Call (502) 352-2515 or go to Staxxbbq.com.